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Political Science 101by Donald Lewis
Struggling through stages of political grief, a working man finds that all is not lost -- there's always more to lose.
Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Hard Topby Barry Staff
Wanting more meaningful lives, a hitman and hitwoman need to find a way to get out of their auto-locked car for starters.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Shadow Figureby Cassandra Wells
Slamdance Screenwriting Contest Shorts Semifinalist. When a physical medium arrives to investigate a reputed haunted house for a local contractor, a demonic presence makes itself known in ways the client never anticipated.
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Strings Attachedby Dennis Manning
When a washed-up musician returns to his sacred studio to write one last song, the guitars he abandoned come alive, forcing him to face the haunting truth about the silence he choseand the music that never died.
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Under the Bedby Dewayne
Six-year-old Ethan claims something lives beneath his bed and only moves when adults aren't watching. Hoping to prove it imaginary, his parents install lights and cameras, but the presence begins adapting, spreading beyond the bedroom as observation makes it stronger. While the house subtly changes, Ethan grows calmer, revealing he's been teaching it how to belong. By the time his parents understand the rules, the entity no longer needs the bedand neither does Ethan.
Genre: Horror
35 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
35 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoes of 1984by Vladimir Vassilenko
On New Year's Eve in an industrial Siberian city, two couples celebrate 1984 in a cramped dormitory; a year later an Orwellian surveillance state and the draft shatter their bonds and remake their lives.
Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Interviewby Michael G Holmes
On the morning of an important interview, a bitter corporate lifer kills time with imagined self-sabotage, petty distractions, and fantasies of escape.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Magical Day at the Dumpby Frank Vespe
Two sisters' inaugural trip to the Town Dump gets interrupted when a visitor appears out of nowhere and offers help, but his help is foreshadowed by an eerie feeling that something's not right.
Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lurve and Other Five-Letter Wordsby Elliot Stanton
In the lobby of a New Orleans hotel, a Brooklyn-born businessman inadvertently offends a local woman. Instead of apologising, he compounds his error, which causes the woman to return insults. However, peace soon breaks out, and tension releases as the two begin to enjoy each other's company significantly more than seemed possible.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Lost Toys of Lester Lakeby Jason K. Allen
Bill only wants to catch a few fish for dinner. The old, abandoned toys underneath Lester Lake only want someone to play with. (1 location, 1 actor. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Three Is an Odd Numberby jonathan riikonen
Due to a rental office error, three very different guys with different interests end up living together wondered by their female neighbor, and added by a big and sloppy apartment house complex office lady.
Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Sick Bloodby Stan Usherenko
When two brothers revisit the imprisoned father who tortured them as kids, they're pulled into a deadly new game one designed to prove that his sickness runs in their blood.
SICK BLOOD is a visceral, emotionally charged horror-thriller about generational trauma, the inheritance of evil, and the terrifying question what if the monster you fear most is part of you?
Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pet Rockby Mike Doyle
Katie wanted a pet that would never die. Unfortunately, that's exactly what she got.
Genre: Comedy
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Gamesby Bari K. Willerford
A couple in bed after making love, perfect! Except when the man and woman verbally communicate, fireworks.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Elevatorby Carlos Alex Ceni
What was initially supposed to be a simple journey for two strangers to each other is terrifyingly disrupted by the arrival of a third person.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tammy In Hellby Apostolos Kouroumalis
Cheerleader saves small town USA after being bitten by Cerberus after a hazing goes awry and Hell on Earth is let loose.
Genre: Other
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Other
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Voicemailby Dwayne Bricker
On the morning her estranged father is scheduled to be taken off life support, a young woman hides in her apartment, ignoring the hospital's callsuntil voicemails from his number begin arriving, time‑stamped today and eerily describing her present moment. As they build toward one final live call, she must choose between staying safely angry or risking a last, painful conversation.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
What It's All Aboutby John Worsley
When a young woman struggling with her grandfather's death finds herself mysteriously trapped in the apartment next door with two strangers, she must overcome her anger to work with them and get out.
Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bless The Weatherby Charles Lane
At a wealthy Pennsylvania family's 45th anniversary celebration, simmering tensions over land, legacy, and racial hatred erupt into a night of violence, destruction, and irreversible loss.
Genre: Drama
25 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
25 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Antwan: The Christmas Strangerby NG
Feature Length Version Available. On the eve of Christmas, the life of a lonely young boy takes a miraculous turn when he crosses paths with a compassionate woman, unknowingly setting off a battle for his survival, his freedom, and his last chance at hope.
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Biff Bang, American Heroby Ronald V. Micci
Expelled from the Air Force during WWII for his paranoid bombing antics, fighter-pilot Biff Bang and his high school sweetheart, Penny, embark on a crusade to rid the US of imagined Nazis over Iowa cornfields, only to find their rickety, decommissioned plane threatening to crash. (Biff's Bravest Bang)
Genre: Action/Adventure
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Flossy Forwardby Apostolos P. Kouroumalis
If you have ever been bullied at school or at the office, you will relate to this off the wall drama about exacting revenge on bullies.
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Laura Leeby Ron Micci
On her summer teaching break, a divorced woman in an antiques store becomes romantically involved with a divorced man who owns a summer home on a nearby lake. Though she kids him about her name's resemblance to Lorelei, over time it becomes evident that she is troubled by her son's suicide, and the intensity of this sadness lures them both on the rocks.
Genre: Romance
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Friendsgivingby Doug J Robbins
Stacy invited herself to Brian and Mark's Friendsgiving, twenty-four hours before Thanksgiving. Brian's turkey goes missing and he must go on a scavenger hunt to retrieve it.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Locked Inby Carl
When a home invasion goes wrong, three masked intruders find themselves trapped inside the house of a retired mortician who has turned his home into a living tomb. As the night spirals into a sadistic game of survival, they realize the real horror isn't escaping the house it's being chosen to leave.
Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
And There's Nothing You Can Do About Itby Deanne Gittens
A grifter with chameleon-like qualities raises suspicion of her real intentions for a few gossipy church members but it might be too late to catch her at her game before she's moved on again, and morphing into someone else.
Genre: Drama
36 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
36 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Grandma's Secret Ingredientby Elliot Stanton
A long-held secret family gravy recipe is passed down to another generation when an older woman believes the time is right for her granddaughter to learn the 'killer' secret ingredient.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Crunch Timeby Ron Brawer
Mere hours before the annual Board meeting, the company's 82-year-old CEO and its 81-year-old CFO discover a $13 billion shortfall. Time to thrust aside their mutual antagonism - and aluminum walkers - and leap into action.
Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Silver Starby Leonard Varasano
Haunted by the death of a young child during his watch, a police officer contemplates vengeance against the suspect he holds responsible.
Genre: Drama
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Refugeeby Doug J Robbins
A refugee from the world of dreams befriends a young girl in hopes of becoming real.
The girls must hide their relationship or risk having the refugee taken back to the dream institute, where she would have to go back to being imaginary.
Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Switchby Charles Hall
Tragedy strikes a group of young friends when the high school misfit introduces them to a risky new game called Switch.
Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Conundrumby Irina Kompa
Two strangers damaged by life meet by chance in a dive bar, unaware that before the night is over, one may save the other from making an irreversible mistake.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
You Get What You Deserveby Jane Tumminello
A self-centered young guy suffers the consequences when he cruelly breaks up with his girlfriend over the phone.
Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Butt Crack Innby Kenneth M. Kielty
Butt Crack Bar is a script in the Bar Whore Trilogy
Set in NYC and the Florida, a middle-aged writer must visit his agent. She rips into her client's writing and strongly suggests he visit her home in Florida to do his rewrites. She mentions it is a nudist resort. The community consists of aging residents, a one breasted property manager and overly attractive bar maids.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Strategic Ambiguity 101by John Boal
Forced to teach a new mandatory business class called "Strategic Ambiguity 101", Professor Mandella tells his students that future business leaders must abandon traditional communications of clarity; learn how to send mixed messages and subvert the truth to be successful. Yet as his savvy Gen Z students share their brutally honest feedback about this deceptive and all too pervasive tactic, they teach him a life lesson with Professor Mandella rediscovering his true self.
Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The House on the Hillby Maddie Peterson
A college student with a class project begins investigating a local myth, opening a world of mystery.
Genre: Horror
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Noble Deceptionby Chris Burns
After a ruthless businessman discovers a dying cashier inside a locked supermarket, he becomes convinced the killer is still inside and fights desperately to escape. But the terrifying ordeal is no random nightmare: his fed-up wife and the employee whose life he ruined have carefully constructed a deadly deception, exploiting his arrogance, temper and instinct for violence to turn him from the hunted into the man the police believe is the killer.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Developingby Steven Burton
After a man develops several old 35 mm. rolls of film, he discovers links to the past, present, and future.
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Beacon Streetby Doug J Robbins
Charlie finds himself on Beacon Street. He cannot remember how he got there, but all that inhabits Beacon Street are his dead Uncle Leon, a little girl named Angela, and a mysterious man.
Genre: Fantasy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Problem With Moon Menby Robert M. Tartell
A female astronaut's chance encounter with a space alien gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "Love Triangle."
Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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